Miss Lowe's Book Nook

Finals week is fast approaching! So what have I been doing? Reading a book that has absolutely nothing to do with any of my classes! Today I finished Incognito: The Secret Lives of the Brain by David Eagleman. It was, shall we say, enlightening. I've always been fascinated by the brain. It's three pounds of mushy pinkness floating around in a bone bowl, but it somehow controls our bodies, understands science, creates worlds out of ink and paint, and stores obscene amounts of information. I always end up in awe of God's handiwork when I learn more about the complexities of our squishy control centers! Eagleman is certainly very knowledgeable. He focuses on the brain as the center for thinking rather than giving us a tour of the specific parts and their functions. His case is this: our consciousness is actually only a tiny, miniscule part of our brains, and the rest is out of our control. Most of what we think we think, is actually thought and processed in deeper parts of ...

Hello all! Hope your days are lovely. This isn't really going to be like my normal blog posts. It's more my thoughts concerning one particular character- Hermione Granger. If you don't know who that is, I have two questions for you. 1. Have you been living under a rock for roughly 15 years? 2. Seriously how do you not know the brightest witch of our age? Well, on with it! I first started reading J. K. Rowling's epic saga in third grade. I was already a fairly advanced reader and devoured books like mad, but those books I read so voraciously that I had books 1-6 read in less than 4 months. (Book 7 didn't come out until after 4th grade.) Not bad for a 9-year-old. These books were like drugs to my young mind. I had never read anything like them before. Somehow, an entire world fit inside the pages and then leapt into my head. And there was one character that has always stuck with me, through half a dozen more readings of the series. Hermione Granger. To underst...